1.    Electronic quick shot bingo is a bingo game played on portable hand-held bingo devices utilizing electronic bingo card images. The maximum sales price per electronic bingo card is five dollars. The bingo game is played using twenty-four predrawn letters and numbers and may use up to six bonus letters and numbers to achieve predetermined patterns. The letters and numbers may only be drawn by the organization either manually or with the use of a random number generator, once during a business day and before the beginning of any session. It is not required for each bingo game to have a winner. The bingo devices used in conjunction with a site operating system automatically daubs the called letters and numbers via a radio frequency signal or wi-fi transmission on a maximum of sixteen electronic bingo cards for an individual game. The site operating system, including the point-of-sale, allows an employee to deposit credits received from a player by cash, check, or debit card to a temporary credit account to be used by a player for the purchase of electronic bingo cards. The devices may determine a winning bingo and must accumulate the winning prize amounts in a separate winnings account which may only be redeemed by an employee.

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2.    An electronic quick shot bingo marking device under subsection 1 is not a “coin-operated gaming device” as defined in subsection 4 of section 12.1-28-02.